Wednesday, January 25, 2012

WIP Wednesday

Another Wednesday and it's been two weeks since I joined in last time. I was away last week and took lots of hand sewing with me. I finished the binding on a quilt, worked on a Material Obsession BOM block and finished another three starflowers, not as much as I was hoping to achieve but not bad either.

Firstly, a finish. A housewarming gift for my wonderful friends. I can't believe I already have a finish for 2012, this is a good start for me and I hope it is a sign of things to come.

As usual, I took my camera and then completely forgot to take any photos of it at it's new home.
This was taken before it was washed and tumble dried.

And after, all crinkly. Fortunately I did remember to take photos once it was washed and dried but before I took it to it's new home. I'm so happy with this one, even though they are not my usual colours. All the stats on this quilt will be in my next post.

It looked great in the house, even if I do say so myself. It goes perfectly with their sofa and cushions.

I finished the piecing on the MO BOM block and was doing the happy dance as I didn't have to seam rip a single seam, it's flat and looks like it should, phew.
Now I just need to applique it to the background.

Finally three more starflowers.

I've also been busy stalking partners in two swaps, Mouthy Stitches and the Name Game. That has been taking up a lot of my time this week.

The Lily quilt has come back from the longarmers today so I'm hoping I can work on the binding over the next couple of days and maybe even have it finished before the end of the month!

Worked On This Week
Circles Quilt
Material Obsession BOM
Starflowers

Sitting Patiently On The Sidelines
Lily Quilt
Tiggly Winks
McFlurry

Ignoring
Amitie Circle BOM

The Weeks Statistics
Finished - 1 YAY!!!!!
Worked On - 3
Ignored - 4
New - 0 - I think it's a record for me. It's been weeks since I started a new project.

Thanks again Lee for hosting the linky party.

Tomorrow, Thursday, is Australia Day, we've had lots of rain and flooding here in south east Queensland again, fortunately nowhere near as bad as last year, but most of the planned official celebrations in this area have been cancelled. I hope everyone has a great day regardless!

Congratulations on your first finish of the year! And what a lovely quilt it is! I'm sure the new owners love it. Your BOM is very pretty too. Do you do the blocks by hand or machine? Keep up the good work ;).

Your house warming quilt is such a winner!! Everything about it works!! I particularly love the quilting :) Did you like making the Queen of the May block? theres a point at which it dosent look like it will go together but somehow it works. The star flowers are sooo pretty.

I love the orange and gray quilt! It'll bring such warmth to their new home.And doesn't it just feel tremendous when a block like that MO BOM lays flat?! Like somehow you just invented the wheel, or something?! :) At least that's how I feel. :) It looks great!

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I live in the sub tropics so you will see photos of sunshine, swimming pools and palm trees. I'm not trying to make you jealous, honest, it's just how it is here in paradise.
In my spare time I would love to quilt if the stars align, I am organised, my mojo has decided to put in an appearance and I actually know what I want to make. I used to crochet too and at one time or another have tried my hand at jewellery making, scrap booking, embroidery, knitting and lots of other crafty things over the years. Unfortunately I have the attention span of a gnat and I tend to lose interest quickly, but I’m still enjoying quilting three years on. Eventually I would like to get back into crochet but I now also like English paper piecing which takes up the bulk of my spare time I used to keep for crocheting or anything else for that matter.
Things do not always go to plan at Chez Sunshine, so you will probably find some interesting reading, and a lot of colourful/bad language on epic fails of the crafty kind.
As always I’m aiming for better time management in the future (and a more consistent mojo!). Maybe 2013 might be the year when it all happens.